STUDENT , CONNOR PRINCE, FINISHED WITH THE SILVER. JUST AWESOME, AWESOME REPRESENTATION. >>> MANY WOULD LOVE TO LEARN A SPORT FROM AN OLYMPIC CHAMPION AND THAT IS WHAT HAPPENED FOR SOME SWEATERS IN COLLIN COUNTY. DAWN WHITE IS IN McKINNEY WITH A 12 TIME OLYMPIC MEDALIST, NOW PASSING HIS KNOWLEDGE ON TO A NEW GENERATION OF ATHLETES. >> Reporter: ABOUT TWO DOZEN YOUNG SWIMMERS HIT THE POOL AT LIFETIME McKINNEY WITH EXPERT EYES WATCHING THEM. >> NOW, I CAN GIVE BACK TO THIS YOUNGER GENERATION. I CAN HELP OUT THESE YOUNGER KIDS AND MAYBE, ONE DAY, THESE KIDS WILL HAVE THEIR DREAMS COME TRUE. >> Reporter: THIS OLYMPIC SWIMMING LEGEND WON >> AT LEVELS -- 12 OLYMPIC MEDALS AND HE HAS WORDS FOR THESE ASPIRING SWIMMERS. >> IT STARTS WITH A GOAL AND A DREAM AND THEN YOU HAVE TO WORK AT IT EVERY DAY. IT DOES NOT COME EASY OR EVERYONE WOULD BE AN OLYMPIAN. >> Reporter: IS NOT ONLY TEACHING THEM ABOUT MENTAL HEALTH AND STRATEGY, BUT THEY ARE LEARNING SWIMMING TECHNIQUE FROM THE MASTER HIMSELF. >> I HOPE TO LEARN MORE TECHNIQUE ALL OVER BECAUSE I ALWAYS THINK THERE IS MORE IN THE GROUND, ESPECIALLY SINCE HE IS THE GREATEST OF ALL TIME RIGHT NOW. I WOULD SAY, ESPECIALLY -- >> Reporter: THE SWIMMERS WATCHED THIS VIDEO OF HIM SETTING A WORLD RECORD IN THE MEN'S 200 METER INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY . 13 YEARS LATER, HE STILL HOLDS THAT RECORD. >> IT TAKES A LOT OF HARD WORK AND DEDICATION AND A LOT OF SACRIFICES. I MEAN, I DID THIS FOR 32 YEARS AND EVERY DAY, DOING IT. >> Reporter: HE WENT TO THE OLYMPICS THIS YEAR, BUT AS A SPECTATOR. >> IT WAS SO DIFFERENT. I ACTUALLY LIKED IT, HOWEVER IT DID BRING BACK MEMORIES AND I WAS LIKE, ON MY FLIGHT HOME, FROM PARIS, I WAS LIKE, MAN, SHOULD I TRY TO DO IT AGAIN FOR ANOTHER FOUR YEARS? >> Reporter: HE TURNED 40 ON SATURDAY AND IS -- AS HE CONTEMPLATES SWIMMING COMPETITIVELY AGAIN, EYES LOOK UP TO